This is Charlie Whitaker, a desperately ill little boy who faces a painful and uncertain future after his parents were refused permission to have a 'designer baby' that could save him. Michelle ...

A 15-year-old boy in China suffered the amputation of one arm and nearly lost the sight in one eye due to a blast from a chemical experiment conducted at home. The incident took place in a ...

The 10-year-old Japanese boy took it for repair, and found out that an invasive ... Yoshiaki has been honoured at a science and invention contest in Tokyo and he has applied for a patent for his ...

We have read all sorts in the New Scientist Book Club, from Octavia E. Butler’s classic slice of dystopian fiction, Parable of the Sower, to space exploration in Adrian Tchaikovsky’s Alien Clay.